If you’re waiting for the current slow market to get better, you’re wasting a golden opportunity to beef up your small business profit strategies through aggressive change management while you have the time.

What do you think your competitors are doing right now?

If they’re smart — and I’ll bet they are — they’re using this time to fine-tune their operations and prepare for the future, not just waiting for it to happen.

You may think you can’t increase profitability in a slow economy, but I’m here to tell you that you can, and you must.

Now, you’ll have to make a real commitment to change if you want to be a front runner when things get better again — and they will get better — but you need to base your planning on a realistic view of your market.

In this post, I’m going to outline EXACTLY what your small business needs to do to increase profits, regardless of what’s going on with the economy. Read more

Last week I asked more than 1,000 small business leaders across the country to evaluate the importance of Top 10 critical business challengesand over 26% of the people responded! Take a few minutes to find out what leaders identified as their top eight challenges. Do you agree with them?